Hanging Bottle Drying Rack

ABSTRACT

The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack, tailored for baby and toddler bottles and cups, is a unique drying rack because it hangs on hooks, handles, over the door and such locations instead of sitting on the counter. It can hang in many convenient locations, (in any sink area: kitchen, rest room, or nursing room), look neat and uncluttered, and allow bottles, cups, and accessories to air dry without sitting in puddles of water. It can be assembled and disassembled per the user&#39;s desire of use and maintenance.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Drying baby bottles and accessories take up much-needed counter space insink areas. Bottle usage increases when mother returns to work,especially if she is pumping as a set of bottles are needed with her,and another set of bottles with milk go with baby for his or her day.The bottle drying racks that exist today sit on the counter, lookcluttered, and take up space. Some even pool up the water as the partsare placed on them, creating bacteria breading grounds.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack can hang on hooks instead of sitting oncounter as current bottle racks do, taking up counter space. The HangingBottle Drying Rack looks neat and uncluttered, and it allow bottles,cups, and accessories to air dry without sitting in puddles of water.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack can hang in many convenient locations: Onmounted hooks, on cabinet doors or door handles, on towel racks, and soon. These hanging locations are easily found in kitchens, restrooms, ornursing rooms where bottles are washed and dried.

The hanging feature distinguishes the bottle rack from existing bottleracks because all existing racks sit on the counter. The improvementincludes benefits of cleared counter space, neater look of drying area,and no pooling of water where bottles and accessories are hung.

The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack is easily assembled and disassembled toallow for customized use, cleaning and storage.

The Hanging Bottle Drying Rack can be assembled with just one row for 4bottles or more rows for more bottles. Each row of current design allows4 prongs to hold 4 bottles or cups. Each basket can fit several smallparts such as nipples, caps and so on. Each Hanging Bottle Drying Rackcan be augmented with more baskets with addition of more top parts. SeeFIGS. 1-5 and description to follow for further details.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 Shows example Hanging Bottle Drying Rack hanging on standardS-Hooks. Rack can hang directly on hooks or use S-Hooks to hang on rodsor handles in sink area wall or cabinet doors 2A. Standard hooks, suchas 2B and 2C, on walls may also be used to hang the Hanging BottleDrying Rack. User may hang using two hooks with two holes on left andright for better balance or 1 hook with one hole as preferred.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of Hanging Bottle Drying Rack. Top frame 1attaches to drying basket 2, which is designed to hold bottleaccessories such as caps, nipples, and pacifiers. Mid section 3 attachesto top frame 1 and contains four slots for rotating prongs 4. Dependingon desired number of bottles to dry, more quantity of mid section 3 maybe attached, (FIG. 3 shows total of 2 mid sections 3). Rotating prongs 4fold in flush to mid section 3 for storage and dishwasher; and rotateout as hangers for washed bottles to dry on. There are four prongs 4 permid section 3. Drip pan 5 attaches to lowest mid section 3 piece tocatch dripping water from bottles and accessories.

FIG. 4 shows side view of Hanging Bottle Drying Rack. Basket 2 attachesto Top Section 1 at point A. Mid Section 3 attaches to Top Section 1 atpoint B. Mid Sections 3 attach to each other at point C. drip pan 5attaches to Mid Section 3 at point D.

FIG. 5 shows cross-section view taken along lines A-A in FIG. 3. Prong 6rotates on attached hinge 7 of mid section 3. Prong rotates forwardtoward stop 8, part of Mid Section 3.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an apparatus that is hung and inoperative position.

FIG. 2 is perspective view of hanging hook options that apparatus canhang on.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of apparatus in operative position.

FIG. 4 is a side view of apparatus in operative position.

FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view taken along lines A-A in FIG. 3.

What is claimed is:
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 6. An apparatus for supporting an article,comprising: a frame that is adapted to be hung and be supported byhooks, with a vertical face when hung, which may be angled pendinghooks; a basket attached to said vertical face, that can be disassembledfrom said vertical face for cleaning or storage purposes, being sizedand arranged to be able to support an article such as bottle accessoriesor pacifiers; a plurality of pegs extending outwardly away from saidface, each of said pegs being sized and arranged so as to be able tosupport an article such as baby bottle or cup, and wherein said pegs arepivotally mounted to said face in such a manner to be movable between afirst storage position, and a second, operative position, wherein eachof said pegs is positioned at an angle with respect to said verticalface, so as to enable said peg to support said article; and a drip panattached to said face, being sized and arranged to collect drippingwater from articles being supported by said pegs and said basket abovethe drip pan, wherein said apparatus can conveniently be disassembledand folded for packaging, cleaning and storage purposes.
 7. An apparatusfor supporting an article, comprising: a frame that is supported byhanging on hooks and a face when hung, which may be slightly angledpending hooks; a plurality of pegs extending outwardly from saidvertical face, each of said pegs being sized and arranged as to be ableto support an article, and wherein each of said pegs are mounted to saidface in such a manner as to be movable between a first storage position,wherein each peg is folded so at least a portion thereof is positionedrelatively close to said vertical face, and a second, operativeposition, wherein each peg is positioned at a larger angle with respectto said vertical surface, so as to enable said peg to support anarticle, wherein said apparatus can conveniently be folded.
 8. Anapparatus according to claim 7, wherein said pegs are pivotally mountedto said face.
 9. An apparatus for supporting baby bottles and relatedaccessories for drying, comprising: a frame that is adapted to be hungand be supported by hooks, and a vertical face, a basket attaching toupper portion of frame, said basket being sized so as to be able tosupport related accessories, a plurality of pegs extending outwardlyfrom said vertical face, each of said pegs being sized and arranged soas to be able to support a baby bottle, and a hinge for mounting eachsaid pegs for common accurate movement between a first storage position,wherein said entire peg is positioned adjacent to said upper portion forstorage and packaging of said apparatus, and a second, operativeposition, wherein said peg is positioned so as to extend outwardly fromsaid upper portion, said hinge being part of said vertical face that isdefined in slotted holes of said vertical face.
 10. An apparatusaccording to claim 9, wherein said location means comprises said hingehaving a first surface that contacts a can stop surface that is definedin said vertical face of said frame.
 11. An apparatus according to claim10, wherein said can stop surface is elevated with respect to adjacentareas of said vertical face of said frame.
 12. An apparatus according toclaim 10, wherein said frictional means comprises a second surface onsaid stop surface, said second surface being constructed and arranged tobear against the vertical face of said frame when said peg is movedbetween said first storage position and said second operative position.